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Quest User Guide

Quest is Northwestern's high-performance computing cluster. It is used by researchers throughout the university. Quest is managed by Northwestern IT Research Computing Services. An overview of Quest and information about applying for an allocation (account) can be found on the Research Computing Services website.

User Guides

• Quest Quick Start Guide: Recommended for new users
• Logging in to Quest
  • Connect to Quest with the FastX Desktop Client
• File Systems and Storage
• Transferring Files
  • Using Globus
    
• Checking Allocation Resources
  • Full Access Allocation Management
    
• Submitting a Job
  • Managing a Job
  • Job Queues
  • Examples of Jobs
  • Troubleshooting Jobs
  • Repository of Example Scripts
    
• Compiling Code
• Available Software
  • Module Software Environment Manager
  • Using R
  • Using MATLAB

Videos

• Introduction to Quest Fundamentals
• Running Quest using FastX
• Running Jobs on Quest

Special Guides

• Transitioning from the SSCC to Quest